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Any books on becoming smarter? Not asking about IQ here. How does one become shrewd, how does one begin to see things that others don't?

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>>15425843

>> No.15425868

>>15425856
Thanks for the recommendation. How has it helped you?

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>> No.15425938

Make it stick
Deep Work
Mastery
How to read a book

>> No.15425952

>>15425843
Maybe by being curious about all sorts of things.
Colleague once told me that she enjoyed visiting this one city during her holiday and she especially liked the "contrast of angles in the local architecture".
She just sees it differently.

>> No.15425960

There are a few books about making your memory sharper. No idea how they're supposed to work.

>> No.15425967

>>15425843
Learn critical thinking and have a vivid imagination, so maybe How to solve it and Moby Dick

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this made me smarter unironically

>> No.15426021

>>15426006
If I didn't have such Vogon inclinations, I would probably become smarter too.

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>>15425843
Read Robert Anton Wilson's books. You can be limited by your beliefs. If your beliefs are not so tightly held, you'll see more potential angles and possibilities. Also take LSD.

>> No.15426541

nassim taleb's books

>> No.15426560

>>15425843
If you want to learn practical skills, stop reading books and start interacting with life. Things like that often cannot be conveyed in words.

>> No.15426567

>>15425843
read math textbooks. nothing else will work. dont read philosophy and definitely dont read economics

>> No.15426618

Plenty of stupid advice. You see things that other people don't by looking carefully. There are no shortcuts or anything, there isn't a magical formula for it.

Read good introductory books on certain subjects to acquire a bit of the author view on the world. A good intro book about economics would give you an grasp of the economist view on things. Same for physics and any other subject.

Read different things and pursue what you find interesting, you'll automatically develop a certain sharpness of wit.

"A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees."

William Blake

>> No.15426625

Philosophy anon.
Philosophy

>> No.15426636

>>15426625
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

>> No.15426643

>>15426636
Yes.
The actual content of the philosophy doesn’t really matter. A lot of what Plato said was worthless. That’s not the point though. The point is that it makes you work your brain like you work your muscles when you lift weights

>> No.15426650

>>15426643
Then read math. Not some bullshit with no objective measurement.
I actually like philosophy but it will not make you smarter. If you come into it sloppy, you will come out with a refined way of being sloppy.

>> No.15427464

>>15425843
Neuroplasticity

>> No.15427804

>>15425843
>>15426625
Philosophy is the basis of it all, but try to have many models thinking reality. You start by having basic understanding on the big fields of knowledge, so you can analyze something from philosophical, historical, political, etc. standpoints. The older the field, the better (psychology and sociology are quite recent, for example, and have short half-lives). This takes a long time, but eventually you'll see through people's arguments and realize when someone is inadvertedly subscribing to a system of thought: "this person is actually being utilitarian, and the counter argument to that is x", for example. Of course, categorizing like this is only a method of expanding your mind so then you can go back to reality in all its complexity and perhaps (though mostly improbably) think of something new

>> No.15427851

>>15426650
Math itself is useless in real life, if not applied to practical sciences, and most advanced practical sciences are hardly useful if you're not invested in investigating really specific (and material) phenomena. Ancient greek people knew more about life than 90% of guys who go through a calculus course. Don't fall into that, OP

>> No.15428982

>>15426567
semi based

>> No.15429363

>>15427804
Sounds like Neo seeing the Matrix code

>> No.15429377

>>15427851
>ancient greeks
Then read Pythagoras nigger, my point stands. His shit is still 100% objectively true today. Why? Cause it's MATH. Philosophy will not make you smarter specifically because you do not know when you are wrong! In math when you are wrong it can be proved to you objectively. Does philosophy provide the grounds for math? Yes it does; but to get smarter, study math.

>> No.15429513

>>15425843
Maybe I'm biased but I credit a lot of my being smarter to learning history/art history and writing essays on various subjects. Makes you better with words, more able to recognize patterns, better at presenting ideas/arguing points, and of course generally more knowledgeable on history/art

>> No.15429550

>>15425843
Shrewd?

Learn from slampigs and thots. Cunning cunts have lots to give.
Get out there and live with eth breathing books
don't sook or merely jus look
Even Socrates learned from woman

the reason is because it forces you to be able to think differently and understanding other perspectives other than your own

Also get dick wet is good for bwain

>> No.15429604

>>15425843
Thinking fast and slow by Kahneman

>> No.15429869

>>15425843
A good first step is to not think of it as seeing things others don't, but things which currently you don't that perhaps others do. Not specifically regarding broad beliefs, but just daily things. If you want to get a good angle on the room you're in, consider how many mirrors you have available. Living, breathing ones. Even if your goal is just to be mean to someone, empathy is an excellent tool, albeit one that can't really be mastered.

>> No.15429891

>>15429604
I don't think this book really shows critical skills to improve the way one thinks, it just shows a series of theories and results. It's a great book, but I don't think it's a first level book of learning how to be smart.